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To: Shadow44

http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/AntiDepressants/breggin31-49.pdf

The report [51] provided a clinical window into the development of obsessive violence and a school shooter
mentality. A twelve-year-old boy on fluoxetine developed nightmares about becoming a school
shooter and then began to lose track of reality concerning these events. This case occurred in a controlled clinical
trial and the investigators did not know that the child was getting fluoxetine until they broke the
double-blind code. The child’s reaction occurred long before any of the well-known school shootings
had taken place. Therefore, his reaction was not inspired by the school shootings; it was not a “copycat”:

[51] R. King, M. Riddle, P. Chappell, M. Hardin, G. Anderson, P. Lombroso and L. Scahill, Emergence of self-destructive
phenomena in children and adolescents during fluoxetine treatment, Journal of the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry 30 (1991), 179–186.


76 posted on 12/20/2012 9:30:16 AM PST by Dead Dog
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To: Dead Dog

Having just read the book review you linked, it pretty much seems to validate the point I’ve been trying to make. It’s all at best, circumstantial evidence for rather large claims that he makes.

Also, one case is an anecdote. As tragic as that is, unless that’s put into context of how many people didn’t develop psychotic symptoms, it doesn’t give us full merit in debating whether or not the cases of withdrawing said drug from the market.


78 posted on 12/20/2012 9:46:13 AM PST by Shadow44
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